The Cardiovascular Center is involved in several research projects. One of them involves Cardiology in a broad sense and explores the sensitive atherosclerosis problem that affects an increasing number of patients with often serious consequences.

Cardiovascular surgery is the specialty that deals, in particular, with the surgical treatment of diseases affecting the circulatory system, which is made up of the heart, arterial system, venous system, as well as the lymphatic system.

Cardiovascular surgery is for all age groups, from newborns to elderly patients. In children, it consists more commonly of correcting or providing palliative care for congenital malformations, as well as acquired valve diseases, particularly those of a rheumatic origin.